This morning, the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicked off at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. The School of Medicine's …
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Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off tomorrow
Thought leaders and innovators from academia, information technology companies, venture capital firms and public health institutions will gather tomorrow on the Stanford campus for the annual …
New computing center at Stanford supports big data
When I went out to visit Stanford's new computing center recently, located at SLAC, I admit I wasn't sure what to expect. I mean, it's …
Professor Margot Gerritsen discusses how "algebra is not just useful, it's also inherently beautiful"
In the above video from the recent TEDxStanford event, Margot Gerritsen, PhD, associate professor of energy resources and engineering and director of the Institute for …
How efforts to mine electronic health records influence clinical care
Developing new ways to mine the vast amount of information contained in electronic medical charts holds the potential to advance diagnosis and treatment for patients. …
NIH Director: "Big Data should inspire us"
Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, is an intrepid data miner who firmly believes that analyzing vast reservoirs of public health information is the …
Chief technology officer of the United States to speak at Big Data in Biomedicine conference
Next month, hundreds of participants from academia, information technology companies, venture capital firms and public health institutions will gather on the Stanford campus at the …
Big Data in Biomedicine technical showcase to feature companies' innovations related to big data
In an effort to spark collaboration among thought leaders across industry, government and academia, Stanford's upcoming Big Data in Biomedicine conference is hosting a technical …
Euan Ashley discusses harnessing big data to drive innovation for a healthier world
Electronic patient records, clinical trials, DNA sequencing, and medical imaging and disease registries are a sampling of the sources contributing to the exponential growth of public databases …
Registration opens for Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford
Stanford researchers have used data mining methods to sift through consumers’ web search history and discover unreported side effects of drugs, pull information from patients' …
Grant from Li Ka Shing Foundation to fund big data initiative and conference at Stanford
Researchers at the School of Medicine and Oxford University are currently developing ways to mine the vast amounts of biomedical data housed in public databases …
Big data = big finds: Clinical trial for deadly lung cancer launched by Stanford study
My colleague Bruce Goldman has written elegantly here before about how large biological databases (a phenomenon commonly known as "big data") are a treasure trove …
Big Data in Biomedicine videos now available online
Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player Euan Ashley on Bigger Data from Genetics and Genomics At the Big Data in Biomedicine conference …
International alliance launches effort to enable secure sharing of genomic and clinical data
The cost of genome sequencing has fallen dramatically in the last decade, ushering in a new era of personalized medicine and promising to yield more …
Capturing Big Data in Biomedicine in tweets, photos and blog posts
Last week, an energetic crowd of roughly 300 gathered for the Big Data in Biomedicine Conference at Stanford to hear from more than 40 speakers about …
Big laughs at Stanford's Big Data in Biomedicine Conference
Last week's high-powered Big Data in Biomedicine Conference, held on Stanford's campus, featured more than 40 speakers and several hundred participants grappling with the massive challenges …